Aqua, it may be possible to get Dolphin but it probably will have some dependencies along with it. It's probably in the kdebase or kdeutils package. There should be some place to look in the packages to find dolphin and if any dependencies.

Also check out Krusader, which is developed for kde. Not sure if it have a Mac port.

Aqua:
Note the definition of "package" from Wikipedia:
"A software package refers to computer software packaged in an archive format to be installed by a package management system or a self-sufficient installer.
Linux distributions are normally segmented into packages. Each package contains a specific application or service. Examples of packages include a library for handling the PNG image format, a collection of fonts, or a web browser."

So a package is any file that is "packaged", not just an application. I don't think that the analogy with OSX is a good one because Safari is designed to run on OSX, whereas no KDE app is designed to run directly on the OSX desktop environment without an intervening layer. Even within Linux, if you try to install rhythmbox on your KDE system, you will have to install parts of gnome to get it to work. (Because rhythmbox was designed to work with Gnome.

I'm probably in danger of teaching Grannie to suck eggs here, and I don't have a Mac handy to go and try this out... But is this covered by MacPorts? http://www.macports.org/

I've used this in the past, with a gui front end I don't remember the name of off the top of my head. It certainly took care of downloading and compiling the packages I was interested in using on my Mac, including any dependencies.

I have no idea whether a port of Dolphin is available through MacPorts, but might be worth a look - and also I think worth adding to the thread as a resource for others looking to easily install other popular Linux packages on a Mac?

No not at all. It's just that Dolphin would be a nice 'across all platforms' alternative.

In my situation, using Windows, Linux & OS X; it would make life easier if the same file manager were in operation across all three platforms.

Dolphin is one of those rare creatures & useful creatures, in that it is potentially usable in windows, mac & linux / unix / solaris environments. It might even be possible to get it to work with ReactOS.

No not at all. It's just that Dolphin would be a nice 'across all platforms' alternative.

Fully understood, I was being rather tongue in cheek

Another great example of a very useful cross platform tool that I've been making very good use of recently is TrueCrypt. I can open the encrypted area of my USB stick on Mac, Windows and Linux. Incredibly useful to have tools that work across the board.

I have a sideline interest with Computer forensics. Truecrypt is very interesting to read about. But I must say...be careful.. Technically the weakness is in passing the decrypted information through ram.

Ram is volatile, but forensic scientists are developing tools that can read the magnetic traces left from the last ram activity.

Also in a more specific sense, there is some suggestion that Truecrypt leaves a telltale Entropic signature for every volume, whether decoy or real.

But I must say...be careful.. Technically the weakness is in passing the decrypted information through ram.

Yes, there's no such thing as 100% secure.

My use of TrueCrypt stems from having been burgled at the start of December. My MacBook Pro was stolen and my wife's MacBook, and also a couple of USB sticks I used at work.

I don't keep anything that you would really call sensitive on my computers at all, let alone on a USB stick, however there were things like letters to friends and relatives etc which just made me feel rather "off" thinking that somebody could be reading through them.

Using an encrypted partition for that kind of thing just makes it feel to me like it's more likely that a thief who is just after things to steal and sell on won't bother trying to crack the encryption I guess. Just wipe the USB stick and flog it or use it or whatever.

Anything that is sensitive like bank details, passwords etc are only ever stored in my head._________________My Flickr